April 26, 2010

My big, big Zojirushi rice cooker giveaway! (Two of 'em!)

Zojirushi rice cookers are the best rice cookers money can buy.

Full stop.

End of story.

At
least in my opinion.

How do I know this?

Because my family has been
using one for as long as I can remember. Also adding "rice cred" to my
(un)professional opinion is that I am half-Korean and born in Hawaii and
if there is anything that Asians from Hawaii know, it's rice.

In
Hawaii, rice goes with everything from chicken curry to chicken
cacciatore. This is largely do to the predominantly Asian population; the love of rice is part of the culture. Hawaiians eat rice
for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Eggs,
Portuguese sauage or linguica, and rice is so popular you can even
get it at local McDonald's restaurants!). Rice is also eaten for snacks (Spam
musubi), and in pretty much every Hawaiian home you can go straight to the kitchen and find rice in the rice cooker. At my house, you'd find the rice in a Zojirushi rice cooker.

Why do I love my Zojirushi rice cooker so much? I can make a pot of
rice and the cooker, with its "fuzzy logic" technology, keeps it warm and
fresh for up to 24 hrs. That means if we have rice for dinner, we can
have the leftovers for breakfast (a favorite breakfast in our house is ochazuke,
we eat it at least once a week) or lunch. I don't know my little rice
cooker knows to keep it at the perfect consistency without drying out
the rice, but it does. It's magical like that.

ZOJIRUSHI RICE COOKER GIVEAWAY

So here's the deal. I want YOU to have a Zojirushi rice cooker of your own. I have two (2) rice cookers to giveaway so that means TWO OF YOU CAN WIN!

And that's it! I will pick two winners at random the morning of Friday April 30.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE A REAL, WORKING EMAIL WITH YOUR COMMENT SO THAT I CAN CONTACT YOU. IT'S A TOTAL BUMMER WHEN PEOPLE WIN AND I CAN'T GET AHOLD OF THEM.

Void where prohibited.

Contest open to US residents only. (Sorry, rest of the world!)

Winners please allow 4-6 weeks for shipping.

Disclosure: I am delighted to work with Zojirushi—a brand I love—on this giveaway. While they did not provide me with a Zojirushi rice cooker (I
already have two of my own) or pay me or tell me I had to say nice things about the company, they did send me some Free Stuff in the form of a hot water dispenser for review (I drink a lot of tea and it
rocks!). Also, last year I wrote about their awesome
bento boxes and hosted a giveaway.

Favorite rice??? Wow, that's a tall order. I love them all - paella, risotto, basmati, jasmine. I guess if I HAVE to pick one I would go with what I use the most - brown jasmine rice, usually from Trader Joe's.

Favorite rice dishes: jambalaya, fried rice, and a nutty multi-grain concoction that I make in the rice cooker using wehani rice (which I love). Dude, I need a new rice cooker since mine is on its last legs.

I love butter rice! Just Korean rice with melted butter. So good! Please let me win! My ummah refuses to use a rice cooker and makes us cook rice the old fashion way: a pot on the stove. She actually does use our rice cooker... as a humidifier in the wintertime...

I would love to upgrade from my low end Aroma rice cooker! As a kid, I used to eat it like oatmeal, with milk and a little sugar for an instant dessert and I still like it this way today. But my fave way to eat rice is to drown it in curry.